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The interception came two plays after Butler found himself in coverage — good coverage — against Seattle's Jermaine Kearse, but Kearse somehow gathered in a 33-yard pass while on his back to give the Seahawks the ball on the New England 5.

The Seahawks called the pass play on second down and Butler, a rookie out of West Alabama, cut off receiver Ricardo Lockette and made the interception.

“That’s my fault, totally,” Carroll said immediately after the game. "For it to come down to a play like that, I hate that we have to live with that.”

He later elaborated on the play call.

“We’re going to leave them no time, and we had our plays to do it,” Carroll said, according to a seattlepi.com report. “We sent in our personnel, they sent in goal-line (package) — it’s not the right matchup for us to run the football — so on second down we throw the ball really to kind of waste a play. … If we score, we do. If we don’t, then we’ll run it in on third and fourth down.”